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Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses

news.ycombinator.com Craig Mod 2025-08-07 05:07:03

Ridgeline subscribers — I’m Craig Mod and I’ve been buuuuuuurnt out this last month following my epic Things Become Other Things mega book tour. Finally, I’m gingerly emerging from my recovery cave. (But reserve the right to retreat again.) Here’s a fresh dispatch — in praise of small businesses and why overtourism can be anathema to them. A great city is typified by character and the character of great cities is often built on the bedrock of small businesses. Conversely: Chain shops smooth ov

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The ‘Murderbot’ Finale Was Note-Perfect

gizmodo.com Cheryl Eddy 2025-08-07 06:15:45

Murderbot wrapped up its season today, bringing the Apple TV+ adaptation of Martha Wells’ first Murderbot Diaries story, All Systems Red, to a close. If you’ve read the 2017 novella, you know the show stayed true to Wells’ ending—perfectly setting up that just-announced season two, something creators Chris and Paul Weitz told io9 they’ve had in mind all along. Episode 10, “The Perimeter,” is unlike earlier episodes in that it doesn’t immediately pick up right where we left off. A little bit of

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Some of the stuff we actually bought during Prime Day

theverge.com Verge Staff 2025-08-07 06:50:59

It’s one thing to do a bit of online shopping during Amazon’s Prime Day sales, but it’s another to put your money where your mouth is. (Where did that phrase come from, anyway?) If you’re curious, here are some of the items that staff members from The Verge bought for themselves. My fancy Withings smart scale died on me a while back, and I’ve been looking for a cheaper replacement, as all I really want is to sync my data with Apple Health. This Eufy Scale was on sale for $39.99, down from $80,

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Remember That Asteroid NASA Deflected in a Test of Saving Earth? We Have Bad News

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-07 09:57:01

In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth. The small spacecraft smashed into asteroid Didymos' moonlet Dimorphos at a violent 14,000 mph, knocking it severely off course. But three years later, astronomers found that the collision had some unintended consequences. As detailed in a paper published last week in the Planetary Science Journa

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Overtourism in Japan, and How It Hurts Small Businesses

news.ycombinator.com Craig Mod 2025-08-07 10:07:03

Ridgeline subscribers — I’m Craig Mod and I’ve been buuuuuuurnt out this last month following my epic Things Become Other Things mega book tour. Finally, I’m gingerly emerging from my recovery cave. (But reserve the right to retreat again.) Here’s a fresh dispatch — in praise of small businesses and why overtourism can be anathema to them. A great city is typified by character and the character of great cities is often built on the bedrock of small businesses. Conversely: Chain shops smooth ov

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Drop Into Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4, Now on Xbox Game Pass

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-07 09:00:09

The Tony Hawk games were some of my favorites when I was growing up. The soundtracks helped form my musical taste and the games helped propel me and my friends to learn to skateboard. So I'm grabbing my (virtual) deck and returning to some familiar gaps and rails in the revamped Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4, which are on Xbox Game Pass now as one game. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a CNET Editors' Choice award pick, offers hundreds of games you can play on your Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, Xbox O

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In the Southwest, solar panels can help both photovoltaics and crops

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-07 08:11:31

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. “We were getting basil leaves the size of your palm,” University of Arizona researcher Greg Barron-Gafford said, describing some of the benefits he and his team have seen farming under solar panels in the Tucson desert. For 12 years, Barron-Gafford has been investigating agrivoltaics, the integration of solar a

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Rocket Report: SpaceX to make its own propellant; China’s largest launch pad

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-07 10:17:21

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history of human spaceflight next week. Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1975, NASA launched a three-man crew on an Apollo spacecraft from Florida and two Russian cosmonauts took off from Kazakhstan, on course to link up in low-Earth orbit two days later. This was the first joint US-Russian human spaceflight mission, laying the foundation for a strained but enduring partnership on th

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YouTube is killing its Trending page a decade after its debut

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-07 14:44:34

Damien Wilde / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube is sunsetting its Trending page a decade after its launch. The company has urged users to rely on personalized recommendations and YouTube Charts to discover trending content. The Trending page and Trending Now list will be removed across all platforms on July 21. YouTube is pulling the plug on its Trending page, about a decade after its debut. The page and the Trending Now list will be removed across all platforms later this month, and the comp

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Indeed, Glassdoor to lay off 1,300 staff amid AI push

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-08-07 13:52:23

Recruit Holdings, the Japanese parent of Indeed and Glassdoor, said on Friday that it is laying off about 1,300 employees at the two companies as part of a broader restructuring that involves Glassdoor’s operations being integrated within Indeed, and an increasing focus on using AI. The job cuts would affect functions mostly in the U.S. across the two companies’ R&D, tech, and HR and sustainability divisions, though all functions across all countries will be affected, according to an internal m

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Samsung is exploring new wearable form factors such as earrings and necklaces

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-08-07 14:15:23

In Brief Samsung released its first fitness-focused smart ring last year, adding to its stable of wearables that’s mostly comprised of smartwatches. The company is now looking to bolster its lineup with new wearables in different form factors, like glasses, earrings, and necklaces, CNN reported. Won-joon Choi, COO of Samsung’s mobile experience division, told CNN that the company wants to explore form factors that let users communicate and do things without needing their phones. “We believe i

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Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought

gizmodo.com Ellyn Lapointe 2025-08-07 21:00:42

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to determine whether humanity could theoretically save itself from a catastrophic asteroid impact. DART collided with Dimorphos, a small moonlet orbiting a larger asteroid called Didymos, on September 26, 2022. The results of the impact blew NASA’s expectations out of the water, shortening Dimorphos’s or

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It’s hunting season in orbit as Russia’s killer satellites mystify skywatchers

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-07 22:30:47

Russia is a waning space power, but President Vladimir Putin has made sure he still has a saber to rattle in orbit. This has become more evident in recent weeks, when we saw a pair of rocket launches carrying top-secret military payloads, the release of a mysterious object from a Russian mothership in orbit, and a sequence of complex formation-flying maneuvers with a trio of satellites nearly 400 miles up. In isolation, each of these things would catch the attention of Western analysts. Taken

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In the Southwest, solar panels in can help both photovoltaics and crops

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-07 23:11:31

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. “We were getting basil leaves the size of your palm,” University of Arizona researcher Greg Barron-Gafford said, describing some of the benefits he and his team have seen farming under solar panels in the Tucson desert. For 12 years, Barron-Gafford has been investigating agrivoltaics, the integration of solar a

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Amazon Prime Day Live: We're Dropping Deals Every 15 Minutes

wired.com Kat Merck 2025-08-07 21:14:37

Are you a coffee paste person? You might be! Several people are—mostly ultralight backpackers. I am not. Or at least I don't think I am based on three cups made with this Swiss startup's unique product. The only flavor is bitterness, and it turns a weird grey color with a splash of milk. But then again, I have so far only tested it in my kitchen against a delicious AeroPress cup and not in the wild after carrying its 5 ounces for 15 miles up and down hills. I do not want to reveal too many of

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This Is the Best iPad Deal on Prime Day (2025)

wired.com Julian Chokkattu 2025-08-07 23:14:13

iPads have long been the best tablets, and right now, for Amazon Prime Day, you can get Apple's most popular slate for 15% off at $279 ($50 off). This is the 11th-gen iPad that the company released earlier this year, powered by the A16 chipset. Hunting for more deals? Read our roundup of the Absolute Best Prime Day Deals, covering all categories, and our lively Prime Day liveblog. The Best iPad Deal Other iPads are on sale, but the latest iPad (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is all that most people

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RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology

techcrunch.com Rebecca Szkutak 2025-08-07 22:00:00

After 14 years of developing inside of semiconductor giant Intel, RealSense is striking out on its own. RealSense sells cameras that use stereoscopic imaging, a process that combines two images of the same object from different angles to create depth, enhanced with infrared light. This technology helps machines like robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles have a better perception of the physical world around them. The tech is also used for facial authentication. “The common denominator of all

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Indeed, Glassdoor to lay off 1,300 staff

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-08-07 23:52:23

In Brief Recruit Holdings, the Japanese parent of Indeed and Glassdoor, said on Friday that it is laying off about 1,300 employees, or 6% of the staff, at the two job sites. The job cuts would affect functions mostly in the U.S. across the two companies’ R&D, tech, and HR and sustainability divisions, Reuters reported, citing an internal memo. Reuters also reported that the company’s CEO, Hisayuki Idekoba, wrote in the memo: “AI is changing the world, and we must adapt by ensuring our product

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The best Prime Day Apple deals on AirPods, iPads, MacBooks and more for the last day of the sale

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-07 22:31:26

Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . The last day of Amazon’s sale has arrived. Throughout the sale, we've been updating this with the best Apple Prime Day deals we could find. Since last July, Apple has released around a dozen new products, including the AirPods 4, the Apple Watch Series 10, an M4 MacBook Air and a new i

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Elon Musk's Bizarre Behavior May Force Tesla Board to Step in, Analyst Warns

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-07 22:43:51

Elon Musk needs no introduction. But unless you've been keeping up with all the bizarre AI scandals, Tesla disasters, and public crash outs, you may need a refresher. Following Musk's extremely high-profile feud with his former best buddy, president Donald Trump, the Tesla CEO has been struggling to find his way forward in the world. For months, Tesla investors and insiders alike have been begging the world's richest man to take a step back from politics and focus on his company, which has bee

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How passkeys work: Let's start the passkey registration process

zdnet.com David Berlind 2025-08-08 00:00:00

Photoraidz/Getty Images Previously on our passkey journey, I talked about the challenge of figuring out if a relying party -- typically, the operator of a website or app -- even offers the ability to sign in with a passkey instead of the more traditional and less secure username and password-based approach. Some of the biggest relying parties in the world -- including Apple, Google, and Microsoft -- support passkeys as a means of passwordless authentication. Together, these tech giants can int

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Nerve pain drug gabapentin linked to increased dementia, cognitive impairment

news.ycombinator.com British Medical Journal 2025-08-07 23:14:49

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Receiving six or more prescriptions of the drug gabapentin for low back pain is associated with significantly increased risks of developing dementia and mild cognitive impairment (MCI)—29% and 85%, respectively—finds a large medical records study published online in the journal Regi

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Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-07 19:50:43

Tunneled Reverse Proxy Server with Access Control Your own self-hosted zero trust tunnel. Pangolin is a self-hosted tunneled reverse proxy server with identity and access control, designed to securely expose private resources on distributed networks. Acting as a central hub, it connects isolated networks — even those behind restrictive firewalls — through encrypted tunnels, enabling easy access to remote services without opening ports. Resources page of Pangolin dashboard (dark mode) showing

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“It’s a heist”: Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-07 22:05:21

A political effort to remove space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some pushback on Thursday, as a US senator questioned the expense of carrying out what he described as a theft. "This is not a transfer. It's a heist," said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) during a budget markup hearing before the Senate Appropriations Committee. "A heist by Texas because they lost a competition 12 years ago." In April, Republican Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, bot

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Tesla is already trying to expand its robotaxi service to Arizona

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-08-07 21:58:12

Tesla has applied to test and operate autonomous vehicles in Arizona in a bid to bring its fledgling robotaxi service to the Metro Phoenix area, the state’s Department of Transportation confirmed to TechCrunch. Tesla contacted the Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) under the Arizona Department of Transportation on June 26 to begin the certification process, a spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The company, which launched a limited robotaxi service in South Austin last month, expressed interes

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Tesla is already trying to expand its Robotaxi service to Arizona

techcrunch.com Kirsten Korosec 2025-08-08 02:58:12

Tesla has applied to test and operate autonomous vehicles in Arizona in a bid to bring its fledgling robotaxi service to the Metro Phoenix area, the state’s Department of Transportation confirmed to TechCrunch. Tesla contacted the Motor Vehicle Division under the Arizona Department of Transportation on June 26 to begin the certification process, a spokesperson said in an emailed statement. The company, which launched a limited robotaxi service in South Austin last month, expressed interest in o

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Nearly everyone opposes Trump’s plan to kill space traffic control program

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-08-08 06:06:24

The Trump administration's plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government's first civilian-run space traffic control program is gaining plenty of detractors. Earlier this week, seven space industry trade groups representing more than 450 companies sent letters to House and Senate leaders urging them to counter the White House's proposal. A spokesperson for the military's Space Operations Command, which currently has overall responsibility for space traffic management, said i

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How to actually raise a seed round: Actionable advice from top investors at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

techcrunch.com Techcrunch Events 2025-08-08 06:15:00

TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 returns to Moscone West in San Francisco from October 27-29, convening more than 10,000 startup and VC leaders for an inside look at where innovation is headed. Among the must-attend sessions is a candid panel on the Builders Stage about one of the most high-stakes moments in any founder’s journey: raising your first round. From pitch to partnership: The real roadmap to seed funding This dynamic panel brings together three seasoned investors — Maria Palma (Freestyle Cap

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Democrats and Republicans Unite in Last-Ditch Effort to Save NASA

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-08 09:10:56

Earlier this year, the Trump administration revealed its proposed 2026 budget for NASA, a horrifying plan to chop up dozens of important science missions alongside thousands of jobs. The proposal suggested slicing the space agency's science budget in almost half, in "nothing short of an extinction-level event for space science and exploration in the United States," as Planetary Society chief of space policy Casey Dreier told Ars Technica in March. Just as predicted, the proposed cuts are provi

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Apple, Mastercard and Visa's antitrust lawsuit over payments has been dismissed

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-08 10:51:02

Apple, Mastercard and Visa have successfully dodged a lawsuit that claimed the companies were colluding to maintain the current status quo in point-of-sale-payment card services, Reuters reports. The original 2023 lawsuit filed by beverage retailer Mirage Wine and Spirits alleged that Apple was essentially accepting bribes to not develop its open payment network or open up the iPhone's NFC-based "tap to pay" functionality to competitors. The judge on the case ultimately dismissed it over a lack

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Overtourism in Japan, and how it hurts small businesses

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